Editorship and History Making: On Historicizing Modern Editions of Tiruniḻalmāla

In the following essay I am going to comment briefly on the intersection between literary and performative genres that originated in early modern Kerala and to some extent continue till date. More specifically, on their relationship with the rich tradition of representing the past through producing...

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Autor principal:	Cezary Galewicz
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	regional history and historiography of India Kerala Malayalam literary cultures manuscript editing Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d3b6f84622a1462fb3bd1f2a1adf691b2021-11-27T12:53:07ZEditorship and History Making: On Historicizing Modern Editions of Tiruniḻalmāla10.12797/CIS.23.2021.01.011732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/d3b6f84622a1462fb3bd1f2a1adf691b2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/3843https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 In the following essay I am going to comment briefly on the intersection between literary and performative genres that originated in early modern Kerala and to some extent continue till date. More specifically, on their relationship with the rich tradition of representing the past through producing works that follow recognizable patterns of composition and conventions of presentation. This more general consideration shall appear here as a backdrop to a study on contemporary editions of an early Malayalam work named Tiruniḻalmāla. The editions follow the relatively recent discovery of the work in question and its subsequent reinstatement in the history of Malayalam literature. I shall argue that the specific ways this reinstatement was presented by the editors, including a particular place they claimed for this work within the formation processes of Malayalam literature, constitute competing acts of general history writing concerned with the ongoing debate on how should the cultural identity and regional history of Kerala be best represented. Cezary GalewiczKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticleregional history and historiography of IndiaKeralaMalayalamliterary culturesmanuscript editingIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 23, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	In the following essay I am going to comment briefly on the intersection between literary and performative genres that originated in early modern Kerala and to some extent continue till date. More specifically, on their relationship with the rich tradition of representing the past through producing works that follow recognizable patterns of composition and conventions of presentation. This more general consideration shall appear here as a backdrop to a study on contemporary editions of an early Malayalam work named Tiruniḻalmāla. The editions follow the relatively recent discovery of the work in question and its subsequent reinstatement in the history of Malayalam literature. I shall argue that the specific ways this reinstatement was presented by the editors, including a particular place they claimed for this work within the formation processes of Malayalam literature, constitute competing acts of general history writing concerned with the ongoing debate on how should the cultural identity and regional history of Kerala be best represented.
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title	Editorship and History Making: On Historicizing Modern Editions of Tiruniḻalmāla
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Editorship and History Making: On Historicizing Modern Editions of Tiruniḻalmāla

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